The Wilmingtonian., 1887-05-14
Docs it Pay !?

Britain, " said President Cotton, spends
annually e14O, 900 or 100000, 900 in
drink, an average Of $40 for each English
man."
Germany has II ,S00breweries, which turnout
S5G 600, 900 gallons of beer. America spends
5000, COO, 900 annually for rum. The money
wasted in drink in England, Germany and
America, would buy all the bread and mea.
eaten by the three nations. This awful bur-
den compes twice the amount of labor in
the world. This drink burden makes two
thirds of our sickness and three-fourths Of
our crime.
YES, but you don't have bear this burden
if you don't drink" says the drunkard,
You are wrong my friend. l paid S425
taxes on my New York house last year.
What was this tax used for? 1t was to gov
ern city where there fourths of the arrests
were made on account of drunkenness. l can
govern myself, but have to pay s425 ayear
to be protected from the criminal through
rum.
was lecturipg out in Kansas last Spring,
where they have prohibition. An intemper-
ate man came to me one day and said g
eyes, Mr.. Perkins, this prohibition will
bring ruin to the State
"It will, will it?"
''Yes, it will impoverish us and destroy our
business houses"
"Now let's see about this my friend" l
said. Lets examine this little.''
"If Kansas farmer brings thousand
bushels of corn into Topeka, he gets how
much for it ?"
"Four hundred dollars" answered my
friend.
Now, if they take this thousand over to
Peoria, how much whiskey VIII it make ?"
"Four thousa-d gallons
"Aud the whiskey is worth how much p,
80. after they have paid four thousand
dollars Ieuenve tax on it to the other thirty
six states, it will be worth about about
$4,000"
"Aud if this Whlskey should come back to
Kansas you would have to pay about s4, GOO
for it, Woald it be worth anything to your
citizens ~
mo; suppose it:would cause great deal
of idleness and crime. 1t would hurt Us.
never did think whskey positive benefit
l."
"Well, I'll tell you," said. "It will hurI
you directly about s., 900 worth. You woult
sell this corn from which this whiskey ii
made for slOO, and then buy back the whis
kew for 81, 900, You would be directly ou
of pocket just s4, 600, and indirectly 1t woulC
cost Kansas in idleness and crime-causeC
BY the s., 900 gallons of whiskey-abou
$50, OOO 1t would take 10000 men da
a piece to drink it up, If they drank quar-
day each. The loss of 10000 days Iabo
to Kansas would be $4,000, wouldn't it ?
'By heavens ~ exclaimed my friend, g
never heard it put in that way. ste it al
plainly now. I'll never say anything abou
prohibition damaging Kansas again"
"Yes, said, Ill Kansas eau save S25, ,0C
on every thousand bushels of corn by lettiu
it go over to PEORIA the mole she is damal
, ed that way tho richer she will become, unit
4 finally Illinois, utterly impoverished, wi
have to call on Kansas to lend her money
build her poor-houses. But there is OIL
thing in Kansas that will be ruined by prc
= hibitiou"
! "What is that ?'' asked my friend
G why her poor-bouses. Your pc ,r-hous
AID jatls will become empty. Think OF
~ pour-house with not soul in it bat the poo
,r master. Think OF jail without a convict
,r poor bankrupt jill aud poor.fo fouss. ~
Perkins